CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Flashcards
Basic Divisions of the Cardiovascular
- Heart
- Two closed circuits of Blood Vessels:
- Pulmonary circuit
- Systemic circuit
➢ a muscular pump consisting two receiving chambers (atria) and two pumping chambers (ventricles)
Heart
➢ circulation of the blood from the heart going to the lungs to get the oxygen and throw the carbon dioxide and back to the heart.
➢ Between the heart and lungs
Pulmonary circuit
➢ From the heart to be distributed to the different body system.
➢ Between heart and different body system
Systemic circuit
Blood Vessels :
Arteries
Capillaries
Veins
➢ Carrying oxygenated blood, except pulmonary arteries that will carry unoxygenated blood.
➢ Reddish color
Arteries
➢ Exchange of gases and giving the oxygen to the tissues and getting the carbon dioxide from the tissues.
Capillaries
➢ Carrying unoxygenated blood, except pulmonary veins that will carry oxygenated blood.
➢ CO2
➢ Blueish color
Veins
- a four-chambered, hollow, muscular organ lying between the lungs in the middle mediastinum.
- about the size of a man’s fist, and in the normal male weighs approximately 250-300gm (Male), 200-275gm (Female).
- the heart is shaped like an inverted cone, with its apex (end tip) pointed downward and to the left base upwards and to the right
- its apex anteriorly and inferiorly to the left at 5th ICS, MCL (ICS – intercostal space, MCL – mid clavicular line)
Heart
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